Rödinghausen is a municipality in the district of Herford , in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .
17-589: Rödinghausen is situated on the southern slope of the Wiehengebirge , approx. 20 km north-west of Herford and 25 km north of Bielefeld . Rödinghausen consists of 5 villages: [REDACTED] Media related to Rödinghausen at Wikimedia Commons This Herford district location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wiehengebirge The Wiehen Hills ( German : Wiehengebirge , pronounced [ˈviːənɡəˌbɪʁɡə] , also locally, just Wiehen ) are
34-795: A hill range in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony in Germany . The hills run from west to east like a long finger away from the main upland area of the Lower Saxon Hills , beginning at the Weser River near Minden and terminating in the vicinity of Osnabrück . It is the northernmost of the German Central Upland ranges extending into the Northern Lowlands . Their highest hill is
51-543: A height of 99 metre, but 2.5 km further west it reaches the level of the surrounding countryside. The waterways of the Mittelland Canal and Osnabrück Canal running away to the south appear to mark the end of the hill range, but west of these canals is the 82-metre-high Larberger Egge which forms the westernmost cornerstone of the Wiehen Hills, rising just 2 km northeast of the boundary with
68-763: The province of Münster . To the north, the Wiehen descends to the North German Plain into a region known as the Lübbecke Loessland . On the banks of the Weser, opposite Porta Westfalica, lies the Wesergebirge , which is the eastern continuation of the Wiehen Hills. This ridge is of similar geological construction and runs as far as the area of Hessisch Oldendorf to the Süntel hills. Southeast of
85-639: The British Isles and Fennoscandinavia . Wesergebirge The Weser Hills ( Wesergebirge ), also known in German as the Weserkette ("Weser Chain"), form a low hill chain , up to 326.1 m above sea level (NN) , in the Weser Uplands in the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony . The thickly wooded Weser ridge is one of the northern outliers of
102-693: The German Central Uplands on the southern edge of the North German Plain and forms part of the TERRA.vita Nature Park in the west and Weser Uplands Schaumburg-Hameln Nature Park in the east. The Weser Hills are widely known because of Schaumburg Castle which stands on the Nesselberg (c. 225 m above NN ) in the Schaumburg district of the town of Rinteln , and is the emblem of Schaumburg Land . The Weser Hills cross
119-658: The German Central Uplands which lie south of the North German Plain . North of the Weser Hills there are only a few hills of the Calenberg Uplands , such as the nearby ridges of Harrl and Bückeberge . To the west, on the other side of the Porta Westfalica, the chain continues as the Wiehen Hills , geologically of similar formation, reaching Bramsche (northwest of Osnabrück ). South of
136-480: The Heidbrink near Lübbecke with an altitude of 320 metres (1,050 ft). The Wiehen Hills lie within the districts of Osnabrück , Minden-Lübbecke and Herford . Their northern section runs in an east–west direction roughly from the territory of Bramsche (northwest of Osnabrück ) via Ostercappeln , Bad Essen , Preußisch Oldendorf and Rödinghausen , Lübbecke , Hüllhorst and Bad Oeynhausen as far as
153-556: The Weser Hills, and roughly parallel to them, flows the River Weser, from Hessisch-Oldendorf in the east, through Rinteln, towards Vlotho in the west, before turning northeast to the town of Porta Westfalica. These northern areas around the Upper Weser Valley , south of the hills are an old area of settlement, which was protected by Schaumburg Castle on the hill of Nesselberg . From the water gap at Porta Westfalica -
170-721: The Westphalian Gap - the river swings north in order to reach the southern part of the North German Plain. North of the hills are the upper reaches of the Aue (also called the Bückeburger Aue ) that run roughly east to west. The Wesergebirge is a chain of about two dozen hills that are arranged one after another in a ridge and which reach a height of 326.1 m above NN at the Möncheberg in
187-959: The Wiehen Hills are the Lippe Uplands , to the south the Ravensberg Hills , to the southwest in the area of the Tecklenburg Land are the northern foothills of the Teutoburg Forest , and to the northwest are the hills of the Gehn and the Ankum Heights , the Damme Hills and the Stemweder Berg . North of the northwestern tip of the Wiehen liest the great bog of the Großes Moor . The hills of
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#1732801277838204-433: The Wiehen range from west to east are: Height of the highest hill in bold; heights in metres (m) above Normalhöhennull (NHN) According to folklore, regionally conscious residents around the hills usually admit grudgingly that the Wiehen Hills are not particularly high. In the same breath, they may assert, often with a raised index finger and an odd emphasis on the word gebirge ("hill/mountain range"), that they are
221-475: The counties of Minden-Lübbecke , Schaumburg and Hameln-Pyrmont in a roughly east–west direction, from the town of Porta Westfalica and the Westphalian Gap in the west past Rinteln to Hessisch Oldendorf in the east, where they transition seamlessly to the Süntel , a ridge of similar height running from northwest to southeast. They form part of the perimeter of the Weser Uplands and thus also
238-586: The northern foothills of Deister and Bückeberge extend farther north than the eastern Wiehen range. However, it is also true that the highest part of the Wiehen Hills at Lübbecke has the most northerly hill over 300 metres in Germany. The Heidbrink, at almost 320 metres high, is also the northernmost "three-hundred" on the European continent between the central Ural Mountains and the Atlantic , i.e. excluding
255-505: The northernmost hill range in Germany and the one closest to the sea. Whether this assertion is true is in fact a matter of definition. It clearly ignores the morainic ridges further north and closer to the sea, as well as other true uplands such as the Stemweder Berg or the Rehburg Hills . Of course, these hills are much lower and do not reach the 200-metre contour line. Of the higher, say up to 300-metre-high (980 ft) uplands,
272-536: The ridge. Whilst the eastern end of the hill chain is clearly defined by the Porta Westfalica gorge and the hill of Wittekindsberg , this is not so simple for its western extremity. To the west the Wiehen descends gradually, transitioning from a hilly ridge into a chain of hillocks and then descending almost imperceptibly into the plain . South of Bramsche the ridge rises again at the Penter Egge to
289-477: The towns of Minden and Porta Westfalica on the Porta Westfalica gorge and River Weser . They also graze Bohmte and Hille to the north. South of the Wiehen Hills lie Osnabrück , Bissendorf , Melle , Kirchlengern , Bünde , Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen . The Wiehen Hills form the northwestern boundary of the Lower Saxon Hills to which they belong geographically, together with the Westphalian part of
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